Police are offering up to $2,000 for the arrest of a man (above) they say robbed and sexually assaulted three women in separate incidents in Harlem. At 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 5, the man robbed and sexually assaulted a 24-year-old woman in a building, cops said. Eight days later, the man allegedly sexually abused a 28-year-old woman aboard a southbound No. 3 train leaving the West 135th Street Station at Lenox Avenue around 10 a.m. The third attack occurred March 21 at 6:45 p.m., when the man sexually assaulted another 24-year-old woman in a building, cops said. He forced her to withdraw money from a nearby ATM. The suspect is described as black, between 17 and 23 years old, 5-foot-8 to 6-foot-2, 165 to 220 pounds, with short black hair and a medium to dark complexion. Anyone with information can call CrimeStoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

A man wanted for a slew of burglaries on the Upper West Side was busted yesterday after an anonymous tipster recognized the suspect’s photo in news reports and called CrimeStoppers, police said. Detective Maria Melendez received the call at 7:10 p.m. and the caller provided her with the suspect’s street name, “Rick,” and his home address, police said. Cops responded to Rick’s apartment at 124-136 E. 117th St. and, after questioning, arrested Ricardo Garcia, 41, on burglary charges. Garcia had previously been arrested for burglary and criminal trespass. At least one laptop computer was recovered from his home, along with other electronic equipment, police said.

A drug suspect escaped police custody from the 25th Precinct station house, but was quickly recaptured on an East Harlem street corner, cops said yesterday. Nyisha Jones, 23, who had been arrested for alleged criminal sale of a controlled substance, slipped out of her handcuffs and fled the station house around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, cops said. It was not immediately clear if she was left unsupervised. About a half-hour later, Jones was nabbed seven blocks away, on East 126th Street and Lexington Avenue. Detective Ryan Dean, assigned to Manhattan North Narcotics, was suspended in connection with Jones’ escape while cops investigate the case.

Brooklyn

A 26-year-old man was fatally shot in Kensington yesterday. The man, whose name was withheld, was pronounced dead at the scene in a building on Woodruff Avenue around 11:15 a.m. Police said he suffered multiple gunshot wounds. No arrests have been made and cops do not know the motive.

A man walked into Brookdale Hospital yesterday after being shot in the leg on a Brownsville street, police said. An assailant accosted the man on the corner of Watkins Street and Hegeman Avenue around 10 a.m., pulled a gun and shot him in the left leg. The assailant fled. The man walked eight blocks to Brookdale, where he was treated and released.

A woman died yesterday after being found unconscious in a Coney Island apartment building, police said. Police sources said the boyfriend of Patricia Paterson called cops after he found her unconscious on the floor of a basement apartment at 2833 West 37th St. around 10:30 a.m. Paterson, 44, was taken to Coney Island Hospital, where she died. Police sources said Paterson was apparently murdered, but they are awaiting the results of her autopsy. Cops yesterday were questioning her boyfriend about the final hours of her life.

Police yesterday identified a man who was blown away on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street Tuesday. An assailant approached Elton Simons, 27, in front of an apartment building at 214 Walworth St. around 7:30 p.m., pulled a gun and shot him in the head before fleeing, cops said. Simons was taken to Woodhull Hospital, where he died. Police have no motive.

A man was riddled with bullets yesterday when he answered a knock at the door of his Kensington apartment, police said. Around 11 a.m., an assailant pulled a gun and shot the 26-year-old man multiple times inside 92 Woodruff Ave. before fleeing. The man, whose name was not released pending notification of his family, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A letter containing derogatory remarks was sent to an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn Heights. A 64-year-old man received the letter at the Atlantic Avenue store around 3 p.m. Monday. (m)

Queens

One man was killed and another injured after they got into an argument with several men on a South Jamaica street yesterday evening, police said. The two victims, 31 and 47, were at the corner of 164th Street and 107th Avenue when they encountered their attackers. The younger man was stabbed in the back and died at Mary Immaculate Hospital. The older man suffered a hand injury.

Two men were busted on weapons charges yesterday after cops swooped down on their Corona home, a police source said. Queens Gang Unit cops executed a search warrant at the house at 35-40 101st St. and arrested the two men, ages 22 and 25, whose names were not immediately released. Police recovered a .25-caliber gun and a rifle.

Police are investigating the scrawling of anti-Semitic symbols in wet cement at an Astoria construction site yesterday. The two swastikas were found at around 7:30 p.m. at a work site near 35-02 28th St.

In the first robbery, a man walked into a Citibank at 133-07 Rockaway Blvd. around 10:30 a.m. and slipped a teller a note demanding money. He then displayed a gun in his waistband and said, “Don’t make me use this.” The teller handed over $2,000 and the thief fled. About three hours later, another man entered the Carver Federal Savings Bank at 115-2 Merrick Blvd. and told the teller he had a gun after demanding cash. He then fled with $1,000.

Bronx

A Manhattan man was arrested last night for gunning down a 29-year-old man in Mott Haven three years ago, police said. Andre Chambers, 27, is charged with murdering Robert Armstrong on Brook Avenue on March 5, 2000. Police sources said investigators got information about Chambers’ alleged involvement after interviewing several people.